TRC Week – Sept 25-Oct 6
Integrating Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Settlement Language Training
RRC Polytech’s Centre for Newcomer Integration (CNI) provides language training, employment-related and other services to support newcomers as they settle and integrate in Manitoba. Newcomers possess skills that contribute to the growth of our province, which welcomed nearly 22,000 permanent residents and refugees in 2022.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) recently funded CNI to conduct research that explores what the settlement sector in Manitoba is doing (and could do) to integrate Indigenous histories and perspectives into language training for newcomers.
This project is in keeping with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action 62 and 93 to integrate Indigenous knowledge into classrooms and provide to newcomers an inclusive history of Indigenous Peoples of Canada.
Join Carla Kematch, Director, Truth and Reconciliation and Community Engagement, Clayton Lorraine, Lead Researcher and Instructor, CNI, and Stuart Schwartz, Chair, CNI, to reflect on how we can better integrate Indigenous ways into training delivery.
- Friday, Sept 29, 12-1pm, Roundhouse Auditorium, Manitou a bi Bii daziigae, EDC
Registration is not required for this session.
Film Screening and Director’s Talk with Fawnda Neckoway
Join Fawnda Neckoway, Director & Filmmaker from the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, for a screening of Kita kiskithihtahkwaw: So They Will Know.
Kita kiskithihtahkwaw: So They Will Know is a heartwarming 20-minute film in honor of a hopeful future when it comes to discussing a difficult part of history with the young ones in our lives. Inspired by an innocent question, and the literature of author David Robertson, “So They Will Know” features interviews with David Robertson, Wab Kinew, Bobbie Jo Leclair, Kimberly Giswein and Dr. Ramona Neckoway.
- Friday, Sept 29, 2-3pm, Roundhouse Auditorium, Manitou a bi Bii daziigae, EDC
See the full Truth and Reconciliation Week Schedule of Events here.